Sunday, March 17, 2013

Pekka Visuri, Doctor of Political Sciences and retired
Army colonel, has lectured on some aspects of Ukrainian and Finnish military
history on March 12th in the PoltavaBattleMuseum.
The lecture went off enchantingly. Many scholars, teachers and students were
present. The lecture was a joint event with the Finnish Embassy in Ukraine. Before
the beginning of the lecture the director of the museum Natalia Bilan gave the
flour to Ambassador of the FinnishRepublic to Ukraine Arja
Makkonen, who introduced him to the audience.

The lecturer has worked 15 years as researcher
at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs in Helsinki
and from 2008 at the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki.
He has been adjunct professor at the NationalDefenceUniversity
in Helsinki,
specialized in security policy, strategy and political history. At present he
is senior fellow at the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki.
He is now working in the EU/CBSS projects (EUSBR, PA 14 and Anvil) concerning the strategy for the
Baltic Sea Region, special area civil protection.